CATE—Career and Transition Education Association eNewsletter

Kia Orāna

I hope you are keeping warm this week with the wintery blast.

I am in Wellington this week at the AP/DP conference where CATE President—Craig Dyason and myself presented. It was great to have the opportunity to speak to senior leaders and talk about the NELP—Future of Learning and Work and how we can better deliver a school wide career education programme to all ākonga.

As discussed, alongside the Careers System Strategy there is a need for a career education framework that progressively develops career management competencies. We have an amazing opportunity at this year's conference to have a look at the career education framework developed in New Brunswick, Canada—check out the details below.

It is Halls of Residence time, so we have included a number of resources to support you in this work.

I’m also looking forward to seeing those that can make it next week for the Aquaculture online webinar. There will be a number of different young people talking about their different roles in the Aquaculture industry—see the details below. Please forward the registration link to science teachers and to your student and parent community.

Meitaki,
Leigh Gray

Conference Updates
We are very excited to welcome Tricia Berry from the Ministry of Education in New Brunswick, Canada to the CATE NZ 2023 conference. Tricia will be with us in person and Anthony Mann (OECD) will join us virtually to present the following keynote—From research to practice: how New Brunswick is integrating insights from longitudinal analysis into K-12 career development. This session focuses on the integration of research into policy and practice. It explores the ways in which the Canadian province of New Brunswick has drawn on longitudinal analysis undertaken within the OECD Career Readiness project to enhance guidance for children and young people. It integrates aspects of guidance which can be most confidently associated with better employment outcomes for young people into a new approach to provision. This session provides an overview of the New Brunswick’s latest K-12 Career Education Framework, its rationale and how it is influencing the ongoing development of guidance in the province.

University Halls and Residence and Scholarship Application Information
It is that time of the year again where we are supporting students to complete applications to the Halls of Residence and university scholarships.

This is the link to the recording from last week's webinar—University Halls of Residence Applications July 31st 2023 which outlines different tools and processes for this process.

Here is a link to further information.

Thank you to Tara Heta (Westlake Boys HS) for the following resources.
2023 Referee Requirements for Student Scholarship Applications (002).pdf

New Careers Advisor Induction Two Day Workshop
Term 4—8th and 9th November 2023—Wellington
This workshop has been designed to upskill Career Advisors that are newly appointed to the role and still working out what the role involves. The workshop will run over two days in Wellington from 9.00am-2.30pm. Content will include an overview of Career Education in New Zealand, developing a career education plan looking at available resources for junior and senior programmes, ideas for initiating career conversations, supporting senior students in making career decisions, and systems to manage information.

This workshop is free to CATE members, morning tea and lunch will be provided. Register here

Lunchtime Bytes—Friday 1st September at 1.30 pm
Heather Carpenter—Choices Match

Choices Match was chosen for inclusion in the OECD career readiness site as an example of an evidence-based tool, using theories of vocational personality, identity, self-assessment and interest. The aim is to offer the user easy frameworks to draw out key understandings about self and work interests; the tool uses the model of Self + Skills = Possibilities to do this. The user finds the relationships between personality theme, interest and vocational orientation (derived and adapted from Hollands Self-Directed Search), in a self-assessment process. The skills they would like to learn and the work environments they are attracted to are explored in the Skills Kete, and the roles they are interested in are found in attractive Job Cloud Cards. A report summarises their choices. This programme is used in a variety of settings.

Dr Heather Carpenter has worked across a range of education and social services settings developing resources, tools and curriculum for all ages. She has a particular interest in career decision-making for young people and providing a good start. Heather is the author of The Career Maze, and your 21st Century career.
For more information click here.

Register here

Webinar—Careers in Aquaculture Tuesday 15th August, 7pm-8.15pm

Join Kirsten Norfield, Workforce Coordinator for Aquaculture New Zealand, for an engaging one-hour live webinar that will provide valuable insights into the extensive range of careers available within the New Zealand aquaculture industry. Hear from a diverse group of young professionals who are passionate about sharing their personal career journeys and unique experiences in the industry. There will be a Q&A session at the end to answer all your questions.

Register here

Women in Engineering—TENZ
Check out the webinar featuring Ashleigh Fox and current engineering students. This is a project initiated by the Women in Engineering project which aims to enhance the diversity of Engineering applicants from high schools by addressing barriers they may encounter when considering Engineering as a career. The webinar covered their STEM experiences in school, essential skills for success in university and industry, and the opportunities provided to schools and teachers to promote Engineering as a career option. Woman in Engineering

Please share with your students, Science/Maths teachers and whānau.

Technology Educators New Zealand have a free membership offer for CATE members to access webinars and resources sign up here—https://tenz.org.nz/join-tenz/

Go Tourism
Unfortunately Go with Tourism was unsuccessful at securing additional funding to continue their work past October 2023. They will now be taking steps to wind down the programme.

How will this impact you?

Our Job Search Hub and Job Connector will soon be shut down. We will provide an update when we have finalised the exact date and we won’t be uploading new job listings.
If you have booked a Go with Tourism session at your school, this will continue to go ahead until 15 September.
If you would like to book a session before this date, please contact your closest Regional Coordinator.
If you have a session booked in after this date, unfortunately it will be cancelled. They will contact you separately to discuss this.
If you have student work placements or mentorships currently organised through Go with Tourism, the students will be contacted directly with more information. Go Tourism will be advising how the placement and mentorship can continue to take place.
They will be closing sign ups for new mentorship and work experience placements shortly.
Current projects they are collaborating with you will cease—they will contact you separately to discuss their timeline.

Assets for classrooms
Please note you can continue to download resources via their dedicated teacher’s hub gowithtourism.co.nz/teachers or request video files from them directly. They still have a number of prizes, posters and other great visual assets—including our VR headsets with Tourism & Hospitality experiences pre-loaded onto them—that they would be happy to donate to your classroom, please contact your closest Regional Coordinator to arrange.

Tech Step
Technology has the power to reshape our world, and we want all rangatahi to be a part of this transformative journey. TechStep, a collaboration between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Auckland Business Chamber and Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce.

TechStep has been designed to help equip rangatahi, regardless of background, to make significant strides in the tech world. TechStep will support rangatahi to imagine a future in the tech sector through the stories of the talented individuals who have found tech and are leaving their imprint on the tech world.

Whether rangatahi are seeking career advice, investigating educational pathways, diving into a tech career, or enthusiastic about attending captivating events, Tech Step is there to support you. The potential of technology to redefine the future excites us, and we can’t wait to have rangatahi part of that story too. The tech journey with TechStep can begin today!

From the astonishing advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to inspiring narratives of real-life tech ambassadors in fields ranging from engineering to digital marketing—we’ve got you covered. Access the resources here